And just like that the knitting mojo is gone. It’s not really gone, but rather resisting.  My mojo has set up a splinter cell against the projects in my life and have been leading a steady stream of attacks, weakening the defences of sweaters, mittens, and scarves alike.  I will not give in though. I will not cast on anything new no matter how badly my heart desires it until I have finished one damn thing. That thing, being the Mr’s sweater. I have one sleeve and a collar left. I can make the push in a weekend, but it won’t be happening this weekend.

This weekend will be dedicated to unearthing the guest bedroom and removing 3 metric tons of crap shoved in there. See, Rebecca’s coming in like two weeks. That gives us two solid weekends to get this place habitable.  I don’t know where we are going to put all the crap we clean out of there, but I will figure that out Saturday.  Before and after pictures will be produced inducing you, dear reader into a jaw dropping of epic proportions. Seriously, there’s barely a path in that room right now.  I am going to war against the junk armed with just a vacuum and my wits. 

In a random note, and going against the “no new yarn till may” promise I made myself, last Thursday one of the ladies in my knit group gave me a gift certificate in appreciation for teaching a free class on how to use Ravelry.  I’m so incredible appreciative of it and now have to figure out which yarn to buy which is turning out to be quite the task.  Just goes to show you how the random acts of kindness from people can really make your day.

I promise to have an FO soon, hopefully the Mr’s sweater which really needs to get off my needles and out of my mind so I can work on other newer more fun projects.

Dudes, I actually finished something, two somethings. Bring out the ticker tape parade, Preita has found her mojo.

Koolhaas gone wrong.

 Pattern: Koolhass gone wrong which resulted in the Domhaas renaming. Non-knitters won’t be able to see it easily (if ever) Knitters will see the random stripe of different cables across my noggin. Thankfully, I finished my mistake so that it can now be called a “design element” (brings out her finger quotes for dramatic effect)
Yarn: Berroco Cuzco which is ridiculously soft and smooshy used almost the whole skein with just a few yard left over (LOVE THAT!)

Nothing to say about this hat that I (and 3002 other knitters on Ravelry) haven’t already said. Still of my favorite hat patterns ever and one of the only repeat performances in my knit repertoire. 

NEXT!

Sometimes you just need a huge ass pom pom on your head.

Pattern: My own
Yarn: Debbie Bliss Cashmerino Chunky 2 skeins exactly
Needles: US 10′s through out.

LOVE this green. Of course you probably already know that because I tend to knit this color every month in some form or another.  I love this hat too it’s really stretchy but hugs tight & covers my ears perfectly. I love the cables and I love the Pom

I’m not sure if I will write up this pattern or not? Maybe?

 In other news the Mr & I finally used our gift membership to Costco this weekend. We walked away with 2 months worth of meat, and enough fruit that I won’t have to hit up the store this week at all! I have a love hate relationship with Costco, I love loading up on groceries, but I hate the people. The people! Who the hell goes to Costco to buy 3 freaking things they could have bought from Ralphs more easily & for the same price? And

OMFG the sample people.  I don’t eat the samples of whatever they have at costco (basically I’m not willing to ingest 300+ calories in food I don’t really want or like) but good god, don’t stand next to their little carts because you will get run over when their timer goes off & they start putting out free food.  I was almost knocked to the ground for a Fiber 1 bar. Seriously? If you are going to maul me, at least have it be over something good.

This is why you go to costo, 4lbs of kiwis for 7 bucks.

Also, the most wonderful news hit my inbox Friday.  My cousin Rebecca is coming to California next month for business, but she’s staying through the weekend and is staying with us!!! Seriously, I’m ridiculously over joyed. This woman is the thing I miss about Ohio the most.  I haven’t seen her in two years (which feels like forever) and really miss it.  She’s one of the few people in my family that I really have formed a bond with and feel exceptionally lucky that this extraordinarily cool (yes, she is just fucking NY cool) took me under her wing when I was a teenager.  I used to visit her when she lived in NY when I was a teenager and though there was an age difference of 15 years she never treated me like it. She is the one that first introduced me to sushi (love) and curry (not so much love), who let me once wander her neighborhood in Brooklyn by myself (my mom would have keeled over and died on the spot if she had heard that news) and took me to all the coolest places in order to find shoes, even bawling out a sales woman who gave me shit for my size 10′s (which are now size 12′s). 

Sometimes you just have to look around and think “You know what? Life fucking rocks” cause it is right now. I don’t have any huge specific events that make it rock, but I’m just exceptionally happy lately. Maybe that has to do with pouring my brain out into my computer every day writing a novel, maybe it has to do with the fact that California is in a huge cold spell right now and I finally feel comfortable.  Who knows, but right now? It’s happy time.

Special Ed & Bob the Mouthbreather